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Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series
Increasing awareness of the health risks associated with the exposure of patients and staff in the catheterization laboratory to radiation has encouraged the pursuit of efforts to reduce the use of fluoroscopy during catheter ablation procedures. Although nonfluoroscopic guidance of ablation cathete...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32368383 http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2020.110405 |
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author | Salam, Tariq Wilson, Lane Bohannan, Sara Morin, Michael |
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description | Increasing awareness of the health risks associated with the exposure of patients and staff in the catheterization laboratory to radiation has encouraged the pursuit of efforts to reduce the use of fluoroscopy during catheter ablation procedures. Although nonfluoroscopic guidance of ablation catheters has been previously described, transseptal access is still perceived as the last remaining barrier to completely fluoroless ablations. This study examined the safety and effectiveness of transseptal puncture and radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation using a completely fluoroless approach. Three hundred eighty-two consecutive cases that had undergone completely nonfluoroscopic RF catheter ablation were evaluated. Ablation procedures were performed for atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrioventricular reentry tachycardia, and pulmonary vein complex/ventricular tachycardia. Transseptal puncture and RF ablation were conducted under three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping and intracardiac echocardiography image guidance. Fluoroless transseptal puncture and catheter ablation were completed successfully in all cases, with no intraoperative complications. One patient required minimal use of fluoroscopy to visualize sheath advancement through an existing inferior vena cava filter. Procedural time was approximately 2.2 hours from transvenous access until case conclusion; transseptal access was obtained within 28 minutes of procedure initiation. Arrhythmia was found to recur in 27% of cases on average three months after the procedure. We demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of a completely fluoroless transseptal puncture and RF ablation technique that eliminates radiation exposure and enables complex electrophysiology procedures to be performed in a lead-free environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-71921522020-05-04 Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series Salam, Tariq Wilson, Lane Bohannan, Sara Morin, Michael J Innov Card Rhythm Manag Original Research Increasing awareness of the health risks associated with the exposure of patients and staff in the catheterization laboratory to radiation has encouraged the pursuit of efforts to reduce the use of fluoroscopy during catheter ablation procedures. Although nonfluoroscopic guidance of ablation catheters has been previously described, transseptal access is still perceived as the last remaining barrier to completely fluoroless ablations. This study examined the safety and effectiveness of transseptal puncture and radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation using a completely fluoroless approach. Three hundred eighty-two consecutive cases that had undergone completely nonfluoroscopic RF catheter ablation were evaluated. Ablation procedures were performed for atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrioventricular reentry tachycardia, and pulmonary vein complex/ventricular tachycardia. Transseptal puncture and RF ablation were conducted under three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping and intracardiac echocardiography image guidance. Fluoroless transseptal puncture and catheter ablation were completed successfully in all cases, with no intraoperative complications. One patient required minimal use of fluoroscopy to visualize sheath advancement through an existing inferior vena cava filter. Procedural time was approximately 2.2 hours from transvenous access until case conclusion; transseptal access was obtained within 28 minutes of procedure initiation. Arrhythmia was found to recur in 27% of cases on average three months after the procedure. We demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of a completely fluoroless transseptal puncture and RF ablation technique that eliminates radiation exposure and enables complex electrophysiology procedures to be performed in a lead-free environment. MediaSphere Medical 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7192152/ /pubmed/32368383 http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2020.110405 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Salam, Tariq Wilson, Lane Bohannan, Sara Morin, Michael Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title | Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title_full | Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title_fullStr | Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title_full_unstemmed | Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title_short | Safety and Effectiveness of a Novel Fluoroless Transseptal Puncture Technique for Lead-free Catheter Ablation: A Case Series |
title_sort | safety and effectiveness of a novel fluoroless transseptal puncture technique for lead-free catheter ablation: a case series |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32368383 http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2020.110405 |
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